St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
JUBILEE DISCORD.
The View of the Affair Taken by BRUSH
Workingman's Organ.

The View of the Affair Taken by a BRUSH
WorI<ingman's Organ.
Loyal enthusiasm over the Queens jubilee
is not universal in England, nor is 1t III Ire
land alone that expressions OF popular nos
tility to the crown have been heard. On the
eve of the jubilee celebration, ReynoEdS
Newspaper, London workngman sapaper or
enormous circulation, published a savage
article on the royal family. The following
extract is a sample:
This woman has now ruled over us for the
long period of fifty years, and society Is
about to thank the Creator on a grand scale
for the mercies of the reign.
For what mercies? Will any t1unky in
Christendom tell us one good thing that the
Queen, her sons and daughters, or any one OF
her inexhaustible brood of pauper relations
imported from Germany, has ever done for the
people of this country? Search the records OF
the reign with a microscope, and you will not
be able to discover a single royal act OF real
benefit to the nation.
But the injuries inflicted on the masses have,
alas been serious indeed. The robbery and
jobbery of which the Queen has been the heart
and soul are simply appalling. Our gracious
Queens" cry to her wretchedtoil-w subjects
has ever been that of the daughter of the
horse leech, "Give! give! give!" In fifty
years she has wrung from them directly and
indirectly from eighty to ninety millions ster-
ling. She has jobbed all her children and Ger
man cousins into the highest public offices.
without the least regard to their qualifications
or rather positive disqualitcations. If the ma
ton were in real peril we should have to de-
pose nearly all our chief military and naval
authorities in face of the enemy. Commander
in-Chief Cambridge would have to go; "Fleld-
Marshall the Prince of Wales would have to
go; Saxe-Weimar Leinngen, Geichen, Con
naught, Edinburgh-all would have to go. Not
one of them has brains enough for any respon-
sible command of any kind.
The Queens aversion to real merit in any
form amounts almost to mania. hftleth
German cousin is of more consequence in her
eyes than all the statesmen, all the scholars,
all the scientists, all the philanEhropists in the
land.
1.-THE very dogs in England's court
They bark and howl in German"
The Queen delights to show her power in the
meanest and cruelest manner. Whenever
parliamentary crisis occurs she hastens away
either to Bamoral or Osborne in order to put
venerable statesmen like Mr.. Gladstone TO
every possible inconvenience. The last time
she dragged the veteran minister to Osborne,
in the most Indictment weather, his life was
actually put in jeopardy. Her seltishness is
simply unbounded, and her neglect OF all her
public duties absolutely scandalous.
For twenty years she has been receiving pub
lie moneys to be expended in a manner pre-
scribed by act of Parliament. For example,
G172, 900 (SS8O,OOO) per annum are allotted for
s.Tradesmens bills" The civil list act provides
that if this and similarly allotted sums are
not spent, the balance shall be returned to the
treasury. Now, Sir Charles Dixie and other
competent authorities hold that on Trades
mems bills" alone there is saving of tlOOOOO
per annum at least, which has never been
known to find its way anywhere, except into
Madam Guelph's capacious privy purse. In
other words, she deties the act of Parliament,
and impudently robs the nation Of tlOO,Ooo
year! Hence the enormous hoard of toOOO,oO
sterling which this inveterate miser Queen is
credibly reported to have accumulated from
the plumber of her people.
Size is, moreover, an incOrrigible usurer;
and there is not a mercenary rogue on any
course in the world with a keener scent after
fat and safe Investment" She gr1nds the
faces of the poor like very Shylock; and we
doubt if she ever gave in charity single brass
farthing out of the privy purse. Her sooraQuet
in history will in all probability be THE Mlser
Queen"
Having thus no discoverable qualification
for queensh1p, now IN tne name Oh heaven
does it come to pass that this ugly, parsimon-
tous German frau is to-day the cynosure OF all
eyes, the well beloved of great nation? What
has she done to deserve all this? She took the
trovbte to be born in certain family, and such a
family! There you have all the answer which
can be given. Human reason and intelligence,
not to speak of religion, positively revolt at
the spectacle which will be witnessed in West
minister Abbey on Tuesday, ten thousand
persons, "workingmen representative" in
cluded, all blasphemously falling down and
worshiping fat old lady of sullen visage and
sordid mind, because she is supposed to have
in her veins some of the tainted fluid which
coursed in those of that devotee of Sodom and
Gomorrah, James I.